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Mendacity vs. Mendicity
Mendacity
/menˈdæsəti/Examples:
She had a knack for spotting his mendacity in meetings.Politics often involves a level of mendacity, he noted.Her mendacity was apparent in every false promise she made.
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Mendicity
/ˈmendəkənt/Examples:
The city's mendicity rate soared after the economic collapse.Charities struggle to address the persistence of mendicity.Efforts to curb mendicity include job training programs.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Both words start with mend, but one talks about lying and the other about poverty.
- Pay attention to the ending: acity often refers to a quality or state, while icity implies a condition.
- Imagine mendacity associated with mending the truth, while mendicity could relate to a mendicant, which is a beggar.
- Mendacity contains the word dacity similar to audacity indicating boldness, which can refer to the boldness of lying.
- Remember, mendacity is about deception while mendicity is about the state of begging.
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